Published articles
Baby‘s First Playground
You and Your Baby magazine 1998
Cited in: Primary children denied basic learning skills
Article by Lucien Jenkins. Music Teacher. April 1998.
Music Matters
Music Teacher. September 1998
Why Movement Matters to Your Child
Natural Parent. January 1999
Cited in: A delicate balancing act. Clumsy children can be helped over time.
Article by Celestria Noel. The Times. 3.7. 99
First Steps to the Most Important A,B,C.
Times Education Supplement. January 2000.
Why our children roll and tumble
First Steps magazine (Australia). Issue 13.
In Praise of Song and Dance
Times Education Supplement
Mind and Body
Nursery World. 15.6.00.
Balancing act for better body control
Times Education Supplement 7.12.01.
Table manners for a tubby nation.
TES. 9th March 2001.
Cited in: Unsteady progress. Can classroom exercise really prevent dyslexia?”
Article by Phil Revell. The Guardian.16.7.02.
Attention, Balance and Coordination
(Sally Goddard Blythe)
Special Children, January 2003
Cited in: Back to Babyhood
Article by Stephanie Northern. Times Education Supplement. 11.6.04
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Your child‘s first teacher
Playtime not optional
Times Education Supplement
Reflections of brain-body functioning
Medical Veritas 2:562-566. December 2005
Transcript of a radio interview with Sally Goddard Blythe for AutismOne Radio
Medical Veritas, December 2005
Cited in: A Circular Road to Recovery
Daily Telegraph, 28.7. 2005
The Importance of Sounding Out for Hearing Within
Special Needs Coordinators File, May 2005
Motor Skills Drive Success
Times Educational Supplement, April 2005
Dissecting Factors in Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Medical Veritas. Volume 3/2006. 786-795
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Releasing Intelligence through Movement
Special Needs Coordinators File, January 2005
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Cerebellar Theory Should Not be Discounted in Response to Aggressive Marketing Strategy
Dyslexia Online Journal
Lost in Education - Identifying and Help for the Under-Achieving Child
February 2005
Sports Day - Fun for All?
Times Education Supplement
Music and Physical Education are Primary Needs
Montessori International Journal. July-September 2006.
Children need play
Letter to The Independent 14.9.2006
Literacy born out of physical education
Times Education Supplement.7.9.07.
What babies need
First Steps magazine (Australia). Issue 59. 2008
To be literate, children must be fit
Letter to The Times 25.7.2008
Impact of the electronic media (Extract from “What babies and children really need”)
Montessori International Journal Summer 2008
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Many children lack the motor skills required for learning, says new study
Early Years Educator (EYE) October 2019.
The Body Learns Too: How the Brain–Body Relationship Helps to Lay Down Highways of the Mind
Self & Society Vol 48 No. 2 Autumn 2020
Children may not be ‘physically’ ready to start school
Nursery World. Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Feeling with the eyes
AHPb Magazine for Self & Society | No. 9, 2022
Peer reviewed publications
The Role of Reflexes in the Development of the Visual System
The Journal of Behavioural Optometry Vol. 6/1995/No 2
Screening for Neurological Dysfunction in the Specific Learning Difficulty Child
(Goddard SA and Hyland D). The British Journal of Occupational Therapy.61/10. 1998.
Neurological Dysfunction in Children with Specific Learning Difficulties
Irish Learning Support Association Journal.
Early Learning in the Balance - Priming the first ABC
The British Journal of Learning Support. November 2000
Neurological Dysfunction as a Significant Factor in Children Diagnosed with Dyslexia
Proceedings of The 5th International British Dyslexia Conference, University of York, April 2001. (Available on CD Rom from the BDA)
Releasing educational potential through movement
Child Care in Practice.11/4:415.432. 2005
Neuromotor maturity as an indicator of developmental readiness for education. Report on the use of a Neuro-Motor Test Battery and Developmental Movement Programme in schools in Northumberland and Berkshire. 2011. IN: Movement, Vision, Hearing – The Basis of Learning. Ewa Maria Kulesza (Ed). Wydawninctwo Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej im> Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Warszawa.
Viewpoint: Correcting Clinical Facts-Abnormal Primitive Reflexes in Behavioural Optometry and Vision Therapy. Journal of Behavioral Optometry. January 2012.
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School functioning of students with neuromotor immaturity.
Zielińska M & Goddard Blythe SA. 2018. International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies journal homepage: Vol. 7, No. 2, 2020, pp. 40-46 International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies. journal homepage: http://www.ijpint.com ISSN: 2392-0092,
Assessing neuromotor readiness for learning
Goddard Blythe SA &b Lunina N. Modern methods of prevention and correction of developmental disorders for children: Tradition and innovation: Sat. materials of the II International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference, October 22-23, 2020. eds. O. N. Usanova. - M .: Kogito-Center - Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2020 .-- pp. 11-23
ISBN 978-5-89353-607-2
Neuromotor readiness for school: the primitive reflex status of young children at the start and end of their first year at school in the United Kingdom. 2021.
Goddard Blythe SA, Duncombe R, Preedy P & Gorely T.
Education 3-13/ International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education
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The Correlation between Residual Primitive Reflexes and Clock Reading Difficulties in School-Aged Children—A Pilot Study. Kalemba A, Lorent M, Goddard Blythe SA and Gieysztor, E. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023, 20, 2322. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph2003232